Hi, I have to strongly agree with Vlad here, I think the quality of information that you can find in print on GTK+ pales in comparison to what you have readily available on the internet. Of course finding the right material to read might be staggering at first, just toy with the apis a little, doing some experimentation will quickly set you on the right track.
I strongly recommend that you start with getting a grip on the GObject type system, read the material that can be found here: http://developer.gnome.org/gobject/2.32/ GTK+ is basically just GObject based widgetry which deals with the GDK backend for windowing system interaction... once you get a feel for the main virtual methods involved on the GtkWidget class then you should have a pretty good understanding of how GTK+ works (yes, easier said than done... I just doubt that any book on the shelf is going to get you there any faster than just experimenting and doing it yourself). And as Vlad also mentioned, do take a look at some of the more simple and/or more maintained projects source code, the source code of Devhelp is small and readable (of course most of the work is done by the browser embedding, just take a look at how it creates the preferences dialog using GtkBuilder and creates a widget class to encapsulate the preferences module). Cheers, -Tristan On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Vlad Volodin <vest...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Howard, > > I am afraid to disappoint you, but in this case books will not help much. > GTK+ was changed significantly comparing to GTK+ from the 2007. > The best way to start learning is to read a documentation, play with demos > and tutorials, examine other non-complex projects. If you are able to find > a copy of the book, you may read it fast and skip many sentences just to > get a brief idea :) > > Best regards, > Vlad > > 27 марта 2012 г. 20:45 пользователь Christopher Howard < > christopher.how...@frigidcode.com> написал: > >> Hi. I want to have a thorough and well-formed understanding of how to >> use gtk+, which I'm not quite getting from the API. What would be the >> best book I can buy right now? The most up-to-date book I see is >> Foundations of GTK+ Development (2007) but not having a lot of money to >> experiment with, I was hoping to get your recommendations before buying >> anything. >> >> -- >> frigidcode.com >> indicium.us >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list >> > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
